Comments on: Riding Out of Winter https://scooterinthesticks.com/2011/03/riding-out-of-winter/ Exploring life on a Vespa, Royal Enfield Himalayan, Honda Trail 125, and a Kawasaki W650 Tue, 08 Jul 2014 21:35:16 +0000 hourly 1 By: Paul https://scooterinthesticks.com/2011/03/riding-out-of-winter/#comment-5071 Sun, 03 Apr 2011 17:18:16 +0000 http://69.195.124.229/~scootet3/?p=301#comment-5071 Hi Steve. I didn’t see you and Gordon at the coffee shop this morning. I hope you enjoyed yourself at the opening last night. I really did. It was relaxing. I liked the conversation you and Allison had on scooters and motorcycles. It’s funny isn’t it how our lives and children’s lives more forward in unexpected directions(?)like this. That my friend Steve would be giving my daughter scooter pointers. Thanks for the good words on my photos too. I still have three pieces of KFC left. Ooo baby. Nice photo of me and the 1198. You sure are good with that camera. PDR

]]> By: Steve Williams https://scooterinthesticks.com/2011/03/riding-out-of-winter/#comment-4990 Wed, 23 Mar 2011 12:41:17 +0000 http://69.195.124.229/~scootet3/?p=301#comment-4990 Joe: I’m blanking any references to snow or sub-freezing temperatures from my mind. I just can’t wake up and see snow until next winter….

]]> By: Steve Williams https://scooterinthesticks.com/2011/03/riding-out-of-winter/#comment-4989 Wed, 23 Mar 2011 12:33:11 +0000 http://69.195.124.229/~scootet3/?p=301#comment-4989 Dear Mr. Riepe: You just go on believing what you will. One of our fundamental freedoms in this country.

Hope the arthritis clears soon so you can enjoy the warm weather and take a ride up this way.

]]> By: Steve Williams https://scooterinthesticks.com/2011/03/riding-out-of-winter/#comment-4988 Wed, 23 Mar 2011 12:30:48 +0000 http://69.195.124.229/~scootet3/?p=301#comment-4988 SonjaM: Photographing the scooter has become a photographic project and one that has revealed a lot for me on how I see things. I tend to flourish with the same subject.

]]> By: Joe https://scooterinthesticks.com/2011/03/riding-out-of-winter/#comment-4987 Wed, 23 Mar 2011 02:56:17 +0000 http://69.195.124.229/~scootet3/?p=301#comment-4987 I wanted to believe that winter was put out to pasture (miraculous manure notwithstanding) but the snow in my forecast for tomorrow makes keeping the faith difficult.

-Joe

]]> By: Jack Riepe https://scooterinthesticks.com/2011/03/riding-out-of-winter/#comment-4986 Tue, 22 Mar 2011 22:22:56 +0000 http://69.195.124.229/~scootet3/?p=301#comment-4986 Dear Steve:

I really think the manure had something to with it.

Fondest regards,
Jack • reep • Toad
Twisted Roads

PS: As soon as this most recent flare-up of arthritis is put in check, I am riding out to Boalsburg for a bagel and a cup of Lourdes water.

]]> By: SonjaM https://scooterinthesticks.com/2011/03/riding-out-of-winter/#comment-4985 Tue, 22 Mar 2011 03:56:57 +0000 http://69.195.124.229/~scootet3/?p=301#comment-4985 Another great set of pictures, and an excellent learning lesson in how to pose your bike. Thank you.

]]> By: Steve Williams https://scooterinthesticks.com/2011/03/riding-out-of-winter/#comment-4984 Tue, 22 Mar 2011 02:25:36 +0000 http://69.195.124.229/~scootet3/?p=301#comment-4984 Dear Mr. Riepe,

Your comment was complex and puzzling, and I felt I should consult my wife. She immediately felt something mythic was at play. Three formations crossed paths this weekend: a Super Moon, for one, hung heavy in the sky—casting its power like a pearl of wisdom. Then you crossed paths with a powerful matron returning home from a spa/spiritual retreat. Seeing your tortured body clambering off that old red K bike—and perhaps influenced by the sight of your Buddha nature—she was reminded of young Prince Siddhartha (in her mind, Keanu Reeves in a loincloth, draped in streams of long raven hair). She recalled how the prince first left his palace and—with horror—faced the real world: the less beautiful, the poor, the sickly, the aged and the dying, and vowed to not rest ‘til he could end all human suffering. Bolstered by this image, the handsome woman leaned in more closely than normally, and—like a Great Mother—kissed you with pity, and offered her best advice on renewal: Ditch the bike but save the oil–a massage might soothe the knots in your poor K bike-ravaged body.

With her olfactory receptors overloaded with jasmine and neroli, it’s doubtful she even noticed the manure.

]]> By: Steve Williams https://scooterinthesticks.com/2011/03/riding-out-of-winter/#comment-4983 Tue, 22 Mar 2011 01:07:45 +0000 http://69.195.124.229/~scootet3/?p=301#comment-4983 irondad: I think the toughest, most emotional season change for me is winter to spring. So much crap working on a rider and by the time it comes I am pretty worn.

When I hear the term leisurely rider your name doesn’t pop into my head. You are a serious rider. The camera may help though. It has kept me from becoming a serious rider.

Good luck “making” photos. It is a rewarding but frustrating path. Stick with it though and you’ll have some fun.

My blog is probably restful because I am usually writing things late in the evening when I am drifting off…

]]> By: Steve Williams https://scooterinthesticks.com/2011/03/riding-out-of-winter/#comment-4982 Tue, 22 Mar 2011 01:03:41 +0000 http://69.195.124.229/~scootet3/?p=301#comment-4982 Circle Blue: If it starts to snow again I think I will have to sit down and cry. Winter has to be over.

Time for me to take the winter tires off the scooter.

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